The Winding River Project

[mightygoose]

i can never remember where your bat thread is

[jmyers2043]

Johnny B.Badd is about to change his lifestyle

A name change perhaps ?? 

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Johnny B. Goode

[mrbisonm]

i can never remember where your bat thread is

lol....that is why I will present my BATs here now, if I need an opinion.

A name change perhaps ?? 
Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Johnny B. Goode

another lol.....lol....don't think so though.lol

Fred

[scott1964]

scott1964, ok, let's hear it........what do you want in your cities, maybe I can help.

I have been looking for constructions lots for quite awhile. and you electrical stuff by the dam looks nice too. 

[NASCAR_Guy]

Yeah I am honored to have a street named after me

[mrbisonm]

I have been looking for constructions lots for quite awhile. and you electrical stuff by the dam looks nice too. 

....sent you a PM....


EDIT:  Btw, should I maybe write a tutorial once in awhile here on how I do certain things with SC4? I mean like the construction sites, electrical sites as Scott1964 mentioned, forest and lakes, farms, terraforming etc....Let me know, I might do that.
I once started something like this on ST and then those ****** banned me for a month, so to heck with them, right. It was called *57 Regions*, that's how many regions I have, all different. I had somewhat good comeback from it, but.....
anyways, I can always through one in here and help you to create the same.

Fred

[mrbisonm]

Ok, like I said somewhere above or on the page before, I will be showing some new Nexis BATs here for you to download and get some feedback and comments since my BATthread is somehow hidden, it seems... and comments are seldom or nonexistent

Here is a model that I will upload soon and it is supposed to become a Waterpumping Station. You probably have already seen it if you're a reader of my MD. I will need two or three of you, who will be willing to test it ingame once its finished, but for the moment I would like to hear from you, because I need to know:

- whether there is something to add or delete on the model in gmax, (could be anything, larger buildings, more details, add a bldg etc)
- change textures (maybe there are texs better for this than I applied)
- or resize etc.

Also I liked to hear about the water quantity it should deliver etc, you know.....those Stats.

Thanks in advance, anything positive or negative is welcomed, I have no problems with comments as long as they are real and facts.

Fred

Rendered pictures in gmax...



...from different views...



...and some pictures ingame on a quick lot that I generated.



...your opinion counts and don't forget, you will be downloading and playing it.

EDIT: Of course, the military trucks will be removed and replaced by some other things from the LE, mostly Maxis props. These were only added to fit with the story of my MD.

[scott1964]

That looks awesome. 

[mightygoose]

the last picture has some major shadow issues....

[jmyers2043]

Also I liked to hear about the water quantity it should deliver etc, you know.....those Stats.

Hey Fred

Use the XTool. It should give you the correct stats. I used it for the aquafer water towers I did.

I like your water buidling. it has a nice design. I will use it in my cities for sure. The air vents on the roof could be less white but that's a quibble. Maybe something along this color if you're open to suggestions ...



- Jim

[mrbisonm]

the last picture has some major shadow issues....

wow, I didn't even see that, i will have a look at that. Anyways, this is only a prerender with a lower quality of rendering, maybe the shadow issue will disappear when rendering in full quality. Hope so, because otherwise I don't really know what to do do about this.

Hey Fred

Use the XTool. It should give you the correct stats. I used it for the aquafer water towers I did.

I like your water buidling. it has a nice design. I will use it in my cities for sure. The air vents on the roof could be less white but that's a quibble. Maybe something along this color if you're open to suggestions ...



- Jim

XTool, what's this? lol, never heard of it. The only program tool that I know a bit to work with is the Ilive Reader 093 and the Maxis LE, that's about it, and also the only tools I have installed besides the PIM. I have a lot of problems understanding these tools.
Open for suggestions?...Hey, you bet, I am always open for suggestions and comments, everyone should this by now.
That greenish colour of these airvents may look good on my building, have to try that with the next rendering. True that they are a little too white, I supposed they painted it freshly when I wasn't looking....

I will be back with an update (big one this time) very shortly, maybe tomorrow or the day after. I got the pictures, the story is written, all I need to do is to verify the text again, not to leave it with too many mistakes.

Fred

[frostwolf]

I love the new pumping station. That looks so much more realistic than the ones from Maxis. I'm not sure how much of a capacity it would have, but it seems like it would be pretty high.

[jmyers2043]

Hope so, because otherwise I don't really know what to do do about this.

A prop will position itself according to average terrain. That is why buildings as props will dig into the side of a hill and hover above ground on the other side.

A 'real' building like this water building will anchor itself to a terrain high spot. What I think has happened is the foundation parameter in the buildings exemplar has been changed or removed. Removing the foundation from the exemplar is a trick some folk use to get rid of the ugly brown maxis box foundation. But it can cause the building to hover above ground and cast the shadow seen here.

If i am correct? Then you have two choices.

1. Adjust the lot foundation (not building foundation) to something like ... slope before lot foundation = 0.

2. The other choice you have is to model a foundation for your (basically diagonal) building. Square buildings are easy ... buildings with diagonal walls are possible but require planning. I know, I've done a few diagonal barn buildings with foundations.

I did a short tutorial if you want to go down that road.

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=536.msg294366#msg294366

Good Luck.

- Jim

[vester]

XTool, what's this? lol, never heard of it. The only program tool that I know a bit to work with is the Ilive Reader 093 and the Maxis LE, that's about it, and also the only tools I have installed besides the PIM.

Well it was call X-Tool, it is uploaded as SC4 PIM.

[mrbisonm]

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=536.msg294366#msg294366

Good Luck.

- Jim

Thanks Jim, I will surely take care of it as you said. That tutorial might come in very handy too.

Well it was call X-Tool, it is uploaded as SC4 PIM.

Ok, the SC4PIM..... then I have it....lol. Thanks vester!


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Update 63



                                 Friday, August 12th, 1966
                          Today at this date... then:

                                               -  1281 – The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is
                                                   destroyed
                                                   by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
                                               -  1833 – Chicago is founded.
                                               -  1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic
                                                  Games
                                                  due to the country's racist policies.
                                               -  1939 – George Hamilton, American actor was
                                                   born.
                                               -  1982 – Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
                                                   died

««" Ok, let's hear it, I can see it on your face, what have you been up to again?"»», John Gabber said when Mike Allheimer entered Barby's Biergarten on this friday afternoon with a big smile on his face and sat down in front of John.
A small group of friends gather here every friday afternoon at around 4 PM (16:00hrs) since three years already. Members of this group are John Gabber, Mike Allheimer, Alex Puto, Ts Slye, Henry Gabber (John's father) once in awhile, Steve Gibson, the pilot and since a few months also Charles M. Johnson, the journalist and Tom Kohler, who owns Access Busline. Today only three were present, John, Mike and Steve. Everyone else had something else to do today.
««" Have you seen Alex lately?", Mike asked John and Steve with a concerning face, since he hasn't seen him for more than a month now.
Steve answered, " He is with his new girlfriend all the time lately"
Mike all surprized, "He has a girlfriend? Since when?"
"It must be two months now I think," John said, "her name is Katie Panaski or Panaki or something. I've told you before, didn't I? They met a couple years ago in Frampton, he must have told you that too, and she moved into Phlox on the island lately, buying the small old harbour there that we built for the bridge construction back in '62."
"Wow, I didn't know, that surely explains why he's so busy, even when the highway project is still on hold. Oh," Mike continued with curiosity, " I received good news on Wednesday, the federals seem to have decided where to run the highway, and they will send over a couple of engineers and architects in a day or two to inform us, Oh man, let me tell you, that's about time, 'cause I am sick and tired of waiting for those Goverment Ties."
"Nice," John said, "how come I havent been informed yet? I thought I was the boss around here, ain't I?"
"Heck no," Mike respectivly mentioned with a big smile," I am the boss, remember? I am the Project Manager of the highway and Alex of the bridges, you're just the one who cashes in the check." John is used to Mike's sarcasm, ever since the last war they both survived.
"Anyways, send me a copy when the new report arrives," John said with his serious looking smile, "so that's what showed in your face when you came in."
"No John," Mike continued while Steve came a little closer to the conversation of the two, " I have had a lot of free time these days, you know, and with our workers on vacation and the loggers still busy with the new airport, I went to Lakefield yesterday, fooling around a little in the Main library and I studied the legend of the skullpeople."
"Oh sh**, here we go again," John interupted right there," you're still on that damn subject with the army. Geez, they're here since two years now, you should have gotten used to them by now."
Steve was curious though and started asking, Mike turned to Gibson, "I learned a lot about these people from the past in the library, although it was supposed to be only a legend until they found the village, it is still quite interesting what it says in those old papers. Did you know that they were supposed to have been implanted here by someone else and not accidently came from up northern europe? There's no legend there anyways that they ever existed in Europe and......."
"Ok, that's enough, "John interupted, " we should just accept the facts of the army's explanation and stay out of trouble, I can just hear you opening that freaking bag of yours and start trouble again, don't you think so too?" and he looked at Steve waiting for an answer.
"Sorry John, I'm not with you this time," Steve said, "I thought it over too and came to the conclusion that there's something fishy with the army and the place they have chosen."
"Oh boy" John couldn't help to show his deception of the two and told them that he's going to the bar and get drunk while shaking his head in disappointment of the two.»»
Mike and Steve looked at each other, both wondering what John really tried to say when he stood up mumbled and left to the bar, and Mike continued telling what he found out in that library with every detail. Half an hour later John's father arrived at the bar and asked where the others are, after Henry found out, he left and headed for the table near the windows to go see the others. He sat down and started to listen into the conversation. John saw this from the distance and didn't believe his eyes. He shook his head again, ordered another drink and continued the conversation with the bartender, whatever they were talking about.
So did the friday afternoon end and slowly one by one of the four friends left for home. Henry and John were the last.
««" You know Johnny boy," Henry said while getting ready to leave also, "you should listen in what Mike has to say about those *skullers* (as he calls them), it makes a lot of sense and surely is something worth to think about why the army is there in West River."
"Oh Dad, don't tell me he got you too?"
"Well maybe, but listening doesn't hurt, son, especially when it makes sense like this.", and he left calmly with the winking of his left eye. * Oh btw...." Henry stopped just before opening the door to leave the pub, " Mother asked me if you have forgotten our address, she hasn't seen you in 2 weeks it seems."»»

John left the bar also and lit himself a cigarette on the MainStreet/ Access Road corner just outside Barby's while looking at the regular weekend train heading north towards West River. The train had a lot of immense boxes on it, containers and even some machinery, some of them were labeled with the army's logo. John started thinking about it and what if Mike's nonsense would make sense after all, he thought.
When the train was passed, he went to the rear of the building to get his car and then to Grasslake, where his family already arrived from Bluebay at their weekend home as every friday afternoon during the summermonths. He hoped that his mom was there too, saving him a trip to Bluebay this weekend.

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While we are still in Access Downtown, I would like to show you where Johnny B Bad has moved to. He has been very busy in the last year and also has established his paying buissness in town. About 5 months ago he hired 2 guys that help him out with putting the Weed on the market and streets, while he himself has a plantation near "Grass"lake (what a name coincidence) to take care of with friends. Smart fellow, this way he's staying out of trouble and making twice the money. Because buissness is good, he now has to worry to spend his money wisely and not to make any dust and draw people's attention. Moving into an appartment like this looks suspicious when you don't have a job, but Johnny now started his own buissness, a Cleaner's store. His appartment is one the finer ones in Access Center downtown, overlooking the residential eastpart of the town. Funny is that it is close to the Police station, what a nerve Badd has. Passing by the law every morning in a somewhat older pick-up that he just bought from Wormwood Motors on Access Road, he goes to work every morning at 9, putting on a big smile when he passes the Police office with big windows on the streetside.

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Once arrived at his store on Aberdeen St, just close to the shopping Mall, Johnny usually opens his Cleaner store and waits for two younger women he hired also to take care of the store. Then he leaves again only to take some backroads, not to pass by the Policestation again, and travels east towards Grasslake on the Access Road, where one of his friends owns a small farm near the Winding River. It is a 35 minute drive only.
We know that Badd's store is only a cover up, most likely also to launder money and make sure that it looks like Johnny's been working hard and on to a right track. His sytem and idea seems to work, the police has stopped watching him closely last winter and some regular citizens seem to start to believe also that he is finally changing and getting off the streets. Even his regular street customers can't get over it, believing that he stopped dealing. Now they deal with another person, of course the ones that Johnny hired.
But little Badd has well worked out his plan, having thought it out for the last 6 months and it is finally working in favour for him.

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His friend Osborne in Grasslake owns a few acres of land (within the green lines) trying to make a living with farming, maybe a little lazy to work on the farm, he and his brother started to plant some marihuana in the back of their forest close to the Winding River. A nice place to hide a field of money. Both brothers were the ones who supplied Johnny with the goods before. When Johnny decided to get off the streets and have someone else do it for him, he invested with his two friends in some clearing of the land and planting a "Field of Dreams" as he calls this little paradise of his.
Not far from there is an old barn that's just perfect for the harvesting, trimming and drying of the product, they also pack it here and all Johnny has to do is to deliver it to his two "salesmen" in downtown.

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A closer looks reveils the barn, the private road and the field surrounded by dense forest. Here Johnny comes almost everyday whether to check, pack, dry or cut his green treasure. He also takes care of the plantation with his two co-helpers, which we can see on the secon picture below, where they are trimming the plants to grow into thicker weed that offers more budquantity. This is quite big now for the first time and somewhat they are a little worried about being discovered....., but as Johnny puts it, as long as no one else knows , they will be ok.

(Oh boy, I hope I got all that right, had to do some research on this subject ...lol)

Later in the day Johnny returns to town, closes up his store and drives very slowly in his baby-blue old pickup by the Police office, from where they could see everyone passing. It just looks normal.

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Now, Johnny bought his pick-up from Wormwood Motors on the Access Rd north and having talked to Harry Wormwood himself, he found out that Harry has somewhat some financial problems and wants to enlargen his sales but has no idea how. Jokingly Johnny B.Badd mentioned that he has a good buddy in Reverant City, where he is from, that can maybe become Wormwood's solution, selling some newer "hot" cars coming from the Capitol and outside the country.
That didn't go into a deaf ear and a day later Harry got back into contact with Johnny, paying him a beer at Barby's. Wormwood eager to make a better life, told his whole situation to Johnny. Although Badd is not a specialist in this domain, he offered his help in exchange for a little percentage on the deals. They agreed and off they went to Reverant City for the day where Harry met Gillis, the man behind the biggest organization of stolen, no, let's say "borrowed" cars in Simland.
Because Wormwood  needs more space soon to come, Johnny also offered a terrain that he is willing to rent for a good price. Yes, Johnny has benn active and invested some money in buying a terrain that will soon be vacant, because the piping and wiring company is about to move to Phlox. As I mentioned before, Johnny was busy making a lot of money lately and he had to invest it somewhere. Here he started a company in  a different name than his and with an address in Beecherfalls, and bought the terrain that came on sale the same day near his Cleaner's store on Aberdeen St. (just in between the Shopping Mall and the street that leads to Sandom, former highway 35 in town)
Wormwood agreed under the condition to give him a few months to pay the rent....no problem, Johnny answered and both went back to their own buissness.

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Another one who soon needs another terrain is Tom Kohler, the owner of the Kohler Buslines. His place near the Access Rd and Mainstreet intersection is getting very crowded and instead of tearing down his 24hr Convenience store and the Gasbar in front of his Busyard, he decided to find a bigger and better spot to build his Garages to keep his 9 busses that he now owns. At the age of 28 years now, he is aiming high, starting to like his neat income in the last two years. He hasn't been running his taxi, nor his busses since last fall, having found a reliable manager for his two companies in Access. His girlfriend Jessica Parker from Beecherfalls just moved in with him here in Access, they both rented a nice appartment in those Greek State buildings on the Gibson St that we visited on the last update. Kohler wants to get married before the year is over and then it's time to take care of buissness and get a family started.

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Kohler has 3 choices of terrains on which he will be building his new Garages and Main-office. Below is the first choice, just behind the last homes within the townlimits of Access on the southern end. The terrain is big enough for his needs, well situated and close to the highway with quick access. Also it is just on the other side of road of the new Soccerterrain that was built two years ago, when they needed a bigger terrain for the parking and spectators.

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The second one is right in downtown, further acces to the highway of course, but close to his gasbar and the smaller garage. His girlfriend Jessica prefers this one, which is closer to the center of town and also just in front of the new Sportshall that will soon be constructed. If he builds here, they will be closer together. Tom is more likely to buy the other place because it is very close to the highway and being now a regional public transport company, he needs the fast access to the highway.
This place below though is close enough to his other places. People still living here will be moved to the other side of town. The terrain still belongs to the town since 1956 when the Administration office in the Capitol City supplied the town with land to build on their town. Now the town has decided to sell these lots for commercial use only, which of course Kohler is about to decide on  Besides just a little further behind these streets, Kohler has a small terrain, big enough to build a 2-story home one day, close to downtown and almost quiet as the suburbs.
The third lot is way out of town and close to the museum of Access-Valmore up north and too far from his other buissnesses, therefore a probability not to be chosen.

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Now, we have 6 more places to visit in Access and 1 in Bluebay before we switch over to some of changes in the Phlox County, which still is not considered as a town or municipality. First let's see where the Mayor spent his last four days at the expense of his fellow citizens. Steven Bartlett had no other choice to do something about the used water fact in Access Center before the matter gets too hot. He went to Bluebay for a few days to learn more how to, why and who to hire to get a good sewerage and water treatment plant. His ideas are fix and a budget of 2.2 Million § has been considered for the complete piping system and the plant outside of town. This will be the biggest project since the construction of the Fingerlake dam. Many people will be involdved in this project, such as Jerry Meaden, the father of our Jordan Meaden, who is studying cartography at the moment and about to finish his studies. Jordan will help his father who is a GIS Specialist where to plan the piping system of Access Center and Access-Valmore. There is also the father of Diarmuid MacGormain, best friend of Charlie Gabber, who will be the responsable for the construction expenses and costs of this project as a quantity surveyor and finally Gary Gabber, brother of John Gabber and President of the construction part of Gabber's Ltd, who will have John's oldest son, John Jr, lead the construction job of the plant and the underdigging of the pipe system all over the town.

This will be long though, Steven Bartlett figures about 3 to 4 years before everything of the town will be covered. He knows it should have been done before, but because of financial matters it was impossible to do so at the times. Now or never, he said as the councils made change Bartlett's mind to build the sanitational system first before the firedepartment, the construction of the library, courthouse and Passenger trainstation that were planned for the next two years and which were put on hold until the finances of the town will allow it.
The visit to Bluebay's plant was quiet educational and instructional for both Bartlett and his town, which now contains almost 60,000 citizens together with Valmore.

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The other five places to visit in Access are for one the dezoning of the hillforests south of the town of Access Center. Here is the first exit to the town of highway 35 coming in from Bluebay and Sandom. Close to the fingerlake that supplies the town with water and electricity makes this part of town an excellent site to open up for residential living with slightly higher taxes and of course for those you can efford it. The town decided to do so in the next year. For this year only a nice and freshly asphalted road was built to give access to the area. Now it is Riichirou Takahaschi's job again to get things planned out how to make this a nice and beautiful neighborhood. Riichirou just about finished the surburban plans for Phlox, where he worked for the last 2 years. No time for him this year to go to Japan and see his family again.

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Another residential project is to be taken care of next year is one of the last agricultural fields that will fall into the hands of hungry residents. The plans were already partially made by Riichirou Takahaschi and the streets should be started right after the harvesting of the sunflowers. Lots for 25 residential homes will soon change place with the flowers. Most of the terrains have been sold already.

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More and more complaints from the southern citizens of Access have been filed because of the dustry gravel streets they still are living with. These conditions are inacceptable, they say. "We are in 1966, where civilization is the most advanced yet and still they have to swallow the dusty air and clean their windows and cars every week. Situated just behind the soccerfield, this part of town is seldom visited by outsiders, but now with the complaints of the residing citizens, the council has to act fast and cover these "trails" with asphalt to become streets before they put this part of town on the map. Another expense for the town. Mayor Bartlett wants absolutely to be re-elected next year (1967) that he will allow this expense by cutting down on something else which he hasn't figured out yet.

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I wanted you to show what Downtown Access Center looks like in August 1966. Here everything has changed since the last five years and only the old church, the Bake n' Sale store of Wellington and maybe two or three other homes are still part of this area. This is definitivly not a place to be during Rush Hour.

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Another part of downtown which is rapidly changing is the east part of town. The construction of some new commerces yet to come and the Sportshall on top of Gabber Park will surely change the face of the surroundings of the townhall. Besides this, Kohler Busline will probably leave the area, Wormwood will soon move too and the residents of 34 Balt St will also seize away for commercial developments soon. " Nothing is as before", an older citizen that lives here since 1956 said to Charles M. Johnson, who is the journalist of the Access Tribune, " I used to go to the Olsen Pub for a coffee every morning and feed the horses just in front of it, today there are two towers and a freaking big highschool.". Charles is about to make a full 2 pages article in the Tribune about the invading and imposing changes of Access Center in the last 5 years. If it is positive or negative, we will surely find out in the years to come. (people can't wait to see and use the new Sportshall)

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And to end our long visit to Access, we have a full look at the former airport, which was rebought by Guy Racsan and transformed into buildable industrial lots. Guy is about to make a lot of money here with reselling the lots of the airport area to industrial companies. Some of them have already been sold, one of them is the Pepsi Cola Company from the US which will have a bottling unit right here next year and give more than 150 people a fulltime job. Hiring them has already started.
Racsan Jet Engines and Motor Company have been thriving lately also. Guy is keeping a large part of the airport area to build his carcompany that he absolutely wants to create. The RMC (Racsan Motor Company) will soon be officially formed and start building its factory by the end of next year. Ford Mustang has made its spectacular entry into the automobile market this year and it will be Racsan Motor's turn in two years, Guy believes. But before that happens, Guy will marry his new girlfriend Kathlyn Whitt early this fall and both will build themselves a dream home on the other side of the Fingerlake, where most of the richest families have already reserved some terrains for their new homes. Guy bought a piece of land that his girlfriend fell in love with the first time the road around the lake opened. The size is tremendous and large enough not to see any neighbors , but the price was also tremendous, earning a lot of § to the town. (we get to that in the next update).
While KECO (Kent Engineering Company) will stay in the Access industrial Park along with RMC (Racsan Motor Company), the Kent-Triton Jet Engine Company will move to near the new airport by the Winding River part of Access.
His father, Tony Racsan now 66 years old, is about to transfer KECO and Kent-Triton to his only son Guy. Tony still lives on Grasslake in his wonderful big mansion and takes more care of his project of creating the best wine in the region. He has built his Vignoble (vineyard) office and transformation building in the last three years and now he is ready to harvest his first grapes that he planted some 8 years ago. No one knew about this project ever since it started back in 1958 when Tony bought a very big part of the Grasslake county and started clearing land in the hills. We didn't know why then, but by the end of last month Tony himself announced it while leaving his presidency to his son Guy this winter and that he will live for his passion of fine wines now.
We will visit this with the next update also.

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Now let's jump over Valmore and West River and visit the Phlox county, where Takahaschi has lately finished the neighborhood planning and hundreds of new residents are moving in every week. Phlox is still under Lakefield's jurisdiction, since it is not considered as a municipality yet. But this can change any week now as Phlox is rapidly growing and demanding a mayorship and an independant administration.

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Here is where Highway 35 continues northeast towards Frampton and Beecherfalls and highway 15 attaches itself to part towards the Capitol City of Lakestead, just on the other side of the mountain chain in the west. A lot of money was invested here by the Lakestead administration office. Parks have been built to beautify and draw in new citizens and even the old warplane of Robert Sweathers that crashed in the Stoke swamps many years ago was recuperated, rebuilt and painted and has become the center piece of the highway intersection. We all remember Sweathers when he was found as a longtime survivor of the dense forests some years ago and that he was granted with a lot of land so he can grow his vegetables in West River. Mr Sweathers is 60 years old today and his health is rapidly declining since a few months without exactly knowing what causes it. Doctors think it's a sort of a cancer. He has stopped gardening this year, telling us that he wants to take a break, but we all know that its not the cause.
A small concentration of commercial stores have accumulated south of the intersection supplying the area with the essentials. For bigger shopping they will have to go to Access Center who is willingly to supply anything to Phlox County.

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A small village is about to form evidently it seems, but the county is still governed by the Capitol City. Phlox County is more or less divided into two halves, one west part and the eastpart that we will visit with the next update. This is the westpart of Phlox, and the eastpart has the mighty bridge over the Winding River and Slye's sawmill and is less than half a km from here, taking only 2 minutes by the highway to get there. People from both sides consider themselves as one village though, most of them in the east working at the sawmill and the "westerners" come to church and buy the necessary in the east. Some folks here don't believe that this will ever become a real town one day and of these some think it will become a part of Access one day and others think it will stay under the administration of Lakefield forever and only bear the name of a County.

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The suburbs that were carefully planned by Riichirou Takahaschi are litterally being invaded by construction sites everywhere you look. Lakefield Administration wanted it to become a desirable place to live since it is only a 1 hour ride by Highway 15 away from the Capitol and maybe accomodate a lot folks to live here and and still work in the big City. Taxes are paid to Lakefield......get the idea?
Anyway, it is rapidly growing and somehow most citizens that moved here found another and better paying job in this region, whether in Phlox itself or in Access Center, only fifteen minutes from here. The future of Phlox is uncertain.

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In Stoke the highway 35 construction finally is moving on, the administration office in Lakestead finally decided which way to run the line. After dozens of expensive terrainstudies, it was decided that the highway should follow the downriver, cross over the Ganoga marshlands with two small bridges over the big Ganoga Island and stay on the Kingscroft side of the river to attach itself to Highway 76 towards Beecherfalls north of here, instead of crossing the large river here with an enormous and costly bridge again and not gaining much of a distance. It took the office 4 weeks to decide, when most loggers and highway workers were not working. John Gabber lost a few thousand of § with his, which is shortly applied for to regain from the government as a unexpected expense caused by the administration office.

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A closer look gives us an idea of the site's surroundings and preparation for the guys with the asphalt that wait only a few miles back. Let's not forget that Gabber Ltd hires directly or indirectly more than 1500 workers by now, starting from the highly placed managers to the little fellows that tidys up after the workers. You should see the immensity of paperwork being performed for each week's payday at the Gabber Ltd's office in Frampton. Building a highway for sixty miles (approx 95 km) through the most untouched and raw nature in Simland on all kinds of terrains is a 15 year project with a tremendous  amount of organizing and directing hundreds and hundreds of people around. Stressfull it is indeed for most of the directors and managers. It is John Gabber who has undertaken this project in 1956, which will be 10 years in one month.

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Now, that was another big update again, something to keep you busy for awhile. Let's hope for some comments and remember to leave some comment on the waterrpump model above, so I can modify (if necessary) and prepare it to be uploaded.

Thanks for coming and have a nice week.

Fred

Remember that you have access to a complete detailed large map of the region with the link below where you can always see the reference points. This map is updated every 5 simyears.

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2638/1965windingrivervalleyn.png

[scott1964]

Awesome update. 

[canyonjumper]

Wow! Certainly a large update The story is great, and I like what you're doing with transit, very realistic.

                    Your friend,
                                   Jordan

[mightygoose]

massive update full of goodness re reading now.

[frostwolf]

Just as a point of realism: usually there are more trees over the top of a grow. Cops have long since learned that to hit a grow, a helicopter is one of the best tools out there, and they are very good at it. Which, as a guy from Northern California is a good thing.

Access Center is getting big. Maybe too big. If Gregory Badger has survived this long, we may want to move him out to the boonies to get away from all the hustle and bustle, maybe get started on some land somewhere down that shiny new road.

Just a thought.

-FW

[KoV Liberty]

Sorry about not being here that often but the update looks fantastic! I do look forward to more!